Writing-tablet or blank-book holder.



N0. 679,267. Patented July 23, IQUI. G. W. STUCKETT, in. WRITING TABLET0R BLANK 800K HOLDER.

(Application filed Oct. 19, 1900.)

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WRITING TABLET OR BLANK-BOOK HULUER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,267, dated July 23,1901.

Application filed October 19, 1900. Serial No. 33,592. (No model.)

To wZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES V. STOCK- ETT, Jr., a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Writing-Tablet or Blank-Book Holders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in writing-tablet or blank-bookholders, and has for its objects to provide a simple and cheap holder,whose parts are easily operated to replace one book by another and alsoto afford a good hand-rest during the operation of writlug.

The invention may also be utilized as a newspaper-file and for likepurposes.

The invention is illustrated in the accon1- panying drawings, in whichFigure 1 illustrates a plan view of the device with ablank book held inposition. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of a portion of the holder aswould be seen by looking down ward on the upper end. Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section on the line 3 8 of Fig. 1. I

Referring to the drawings, A designates the base-board, which may be ofany suitable stiff material, wood or metal, and at the top edgeb saidboard is provided at either corner with an angle-bracket c d, secured byscrews. The bracket 0 at one end is provided with a bearing 6, formingone part of a hinge, and at the other end said bracket is provided witha vertically projecting stop lug f. The other bracket, d, at theopposite top corner of the board, is provided at one end with avertically-projecting locking-lug g, which has a central vertical sloth, and on the outside said lug is provided with a countersink ordepression z', which is made around three sides of said vertical slot.This bracket is also provided with a vertically-projecting stoplugf. Abarj has one end hinged or pivoted in the bearing 6, and in practicaloperation said bar is passed preferably between the folded middle pagesof a blank book or paper on, with its free end projecting beyond theedge of the book or paper and extending across the base-board A, and thefree end of said bar is adapted to be lowered into said The free end ofthe hinged barj is provided with screw-threads 7s, and

a tapered or cone-shaped nut Z, havinga central screw-threaded hole a,is screwed onto the free end of said bar, and the small end of said nutis adapted to be entered into the countersink or depression t' in thebracket (Z, which locks it, and thereby the bar and book are retained inplace. The lugs ff project vertically from the baseboard and form stopsagainst which the upper end of the blank book abuts to prevent the blankbook from becoming disengaged accidentally from the cross-har y.

The operation is simple and as follows: The hinged cross-bar j is firstraised, as seen in Fig. 2. The book or paper to be placed on the holderis then opened, preferably to the folded middle pages, and the bar isthen placed between said middle pages, and the book is then closed withthe bar between the pages. The book and the free end of the bar are thenturned down and the bar entered in the sloth, with the tapered nut Ztaking on the outside of the lug g. The nut Z is then turned on the barj until its small end enters the countersink or depression 6 in thebracket, and the bar is thereby held in place. It will thus be seen thatthe base-board will afford a good arm-rest while notes or othermemoranda are made, and when one side of each page of the blank book hasbeen filled the bar j may be raised and the book removed, turned over,and then replaced on the bar,

thereby presenting the reverse or blank sides of all the pages, whichmay then be written upon.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a base-board; an angle-bracket secured to saidbase-board at one upper corner thereof, and provided at one end with ahinge-bearing and at its other end provided with a verticallyprojectingstop lug; a second anglebracket secured to the opposite upper corner ofsaid base-board, and provided at one end with a vertically-slottedlocking-lug in alinement with the hinge-bearing of the first-namedangle-bracket, and also provided at its other end with avertically-projecting stop-lug; a bar pivoted in said hingebearing andadapted to extend across said base-board to said vertically-slottedlockinglug; and means for securing said bar in said locking-lug, as setforth.

2. The combination of a base board; a bracket, a, secured to saidbase-board near one edge, said bracket provided at one end with apart-hinge bearing and the other end having a verticallyprojecting stop-1ug; a second bracket, d, secured to the base-board and pro- Vided atone end with a lug, g, and the other end having a vertically-projectingstop-lug; a cross-bar pivoted in the said part-hinge hearing andextending across the base-board to said lug, g; and means to secure thefree end of said bar to said lug, for the purpose set forth.

3. In a writing-tablet or blank-book holder, the combination of abase-board; two brackets secured to the upper corners of said baseboardand provided with vertically-projecting stop-lugs and a bar pivoted toone of said brackets and adapted to be detachabiy secured to the otherbracket, said bar extending across said base-board below, that is, toone side of the said stop-lugs, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES WV. STOOKETT, JR.

